a first look at a possible impact site for meteorite fragments. this is a picture from a lake in russia -- you can see the hole in the ice. kron4's charles clifford has more on the area impacted by the crash of the meteorite. the meteor entered the atmosphere around 9:20 am local time in russia. it's estimated that it made a shallow entry travelling at about 40,000 miles per hour, or eleven miles per second. russian scientists have said they believe the object was about 49 feet in diameter and possibly composed of iron. for about 30 seconds, the meteor streaked through the russian sky 1000 miles east of moscow and 50 miles west of the town of ??, which is near the ural mountains. based on video of the meteor, it's believed that the rock broke apart about 20 miles above the surface. scattering smaller meteorites across an area about 490 miles in diameter. at least one piece hit a russian lake and other chunks may have fallen into kazikastan, which lies to the south. in the newsroom, charles and this isn't the first time a large meteor has struck russia. in 19-08, a meteor the size of a b
